I just looked in Farm Show Magazine and it showed an article about front-end loaders. This company out of Oregon has design mounting brackets for a SP500, Foreman, and Griz. The web site is www.smucker.net To me this looks like a pretty dumb idea. It would wreck an ATV. Why not just buy a small tractor?

 

I was thinking the same thing today when I read it. I would think the weight of the loader would be more than the load limit of the 4 wheeler befor you scooped anything.

 

I know my foreman is a workhorse,but this is a crazy idea.My 60 inch snow plow is heavy enough on the front end,thats why they sell bobcats and tractors.

 

actually i one were to mount a f.e.l. on an atv and have a heavy duty casters supporting much of the weight it probably wouldn't be a bad idea. atvconnection had an article on a forklift for an atv and it followed the same plan.

texascat

 

What is the use of tearing up your ATV for a little job? You're better off saving up your money for a skid loader/small tractor or just do the job with a shovel and a bucket.

98 SP500

 

I agree. You don't want to be carrying weight that much ahead of an ATV. The suspension isn't stiff enough, and it would be awfully tippy. You can find a skid steer that would do 5 times the work for about $2000 (around here, anyway), or you could rent one if needed.
It is kind of like putting a trailer hitch on a Yugo. It might work for occasional use, but it just was'nt designed for that sort of thing.

 

We had a kobuta compact tractor that was 4wd with a loader.It was to light to dig anything.It had new lug tires all the way around and it still couldn't dig anything.SO I doubt a atv is heavy enough.

We sold it because If you got anyweight in the bucket at all it was VERY unstable.You had to keep the bucket on the ground basicly at all times.I fliped it twice and after the second time it was gone.Luckily I was able to jump out of its way.

 

I went to the farm show in Louisville and I saw the sp500 with a loader. It looked like it might raise up high enough to go over the side of a pick-up, but only if the truck was a 2wd and sat low. The loader itself almost had the front end bottomed out. The thing made you walk away thinking, what would ya ever use it for. Most people thought it was a joke.

 

We have a John Deere lawn tractor. That thing is small enough to go where a normal tractor won't and its 4wd. With the 4wd that tractor can get around the slop pretty good. Its just heavy enough to pull out fence posts too. Very handy tractor.

98 Sp500-shockwears & K&N filter